20 most influential albums of all time…
….as shown in Times magazine.
Please note that Kraftwerk came in as number eleven 
on this list.
More surprisingly David Bowies album ” David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” came in as number three – I have personally always been much more inspired by “Low” and “Scary Monsters”
The 20 most influential albums
1 The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico Hardly anybody bought it, as the saying goes, but everyone who did formed a band.
2 Beatles, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Created the idea of using the recording studio as an instrument.
3 David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars The arrival of postmodernism in rock’s most glamorous self-fulfilling prophecy.
4 Patti Smith, Horses Pioneered vast new territories for women in popular music.
5 Beach Boys, Pet Sounds The instrumentation, the harmonies, the arrangements, the sheer ambition.
6 Beatles, Revolver Goodbye “pop group”, hello “rock band”.
7 The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced? Shaped our sonic world – the template for guitar heroes everywhere.
8 Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited How does it feel? Like a whole new world just opened up.
9 Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Hip-hop comes of age.
10 Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks… Rendered the rock dinosaurs extinct (for a while).
11 Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express It sounded like the future then; eerily, it still does now.
12 Michael Jackson, Thriller The last quarter of a century of R&B starts here.
13 Nirvana, Nevermind Rendered the rock dinosaurs extinct (again).
14 NWA, Straight Outta Compton Created the template for gangsta rap.
15 Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You A soul masterpiece, and an album whose anthems radiated out into the wider culture.
16 Ramones, Ramones Rock’s ultimate palate-cleanser. Generations of punks started here.
17 Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On Motown finds its social conscience.
18 The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Gilded Palace of Sin It was largely ignored at the time, but where would alt-country be without it?
19 Bob Marley and the Wailers, Live! Reggae goes global.
20 Joni Mitchell, Blue Searching for sensitive singer-songwriters? Here’s the source.
Reason Refill from Travis Huckins
At Combinator HQ a new refill has been uploaded that surely will be an asset to your next tunes. Travis Huckins has always provided good stuff so make sure to check this one out fast.
Included:
High energy trance leads, arps, sequences(Run), drums, bass, and fx. Also has some DnB patches. Combinator, Thor, Subtractor, malstrom, NN-19, and ReDrum patches, with samples.
NOTE: Free but requires registration
New DVD out with Gary Numan
Finally, Gary Numan’s stunning 1984 Berserker tour comes to life in this full length concert DVD entitled ‘Cold Warning’.
This is the complete and uninterrupted version of this classic 1984 Berserker tour concert, seen for the first time ever as an official release including the previously unseen Berserker concert intro.
The concert, shot at the Hammersmith Apollo, features all of Gary’s worldwide hits and classic album tracks from his massively successful previous 5 years at the top.
Other updated features include a stunning unseen photo gallery and a 2007 updated Gary Numan interview.
The track listing is as follows:
Intro
Berserker
Metal
Me, I Disconnect From You
Remind Me To Smile
Sister Surprise
Music For Chameleons
The Iceman Comes
Cold Warning
Down In The Park
This Prison Moon
I Die:You Die
My Dying Machine
Cars
We Take Mystery (To Bed)
We Are Glass
This Is New Love
My Shadow In Vain
Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
And of course a weekend treat from the good old days:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzvWHwmoVs]
Do you enjoy fat EBM drums…
….than check out this guys. A couple of really nice tracks and an excellent debut album was released last year.
Click the image below to go to their website:
Vintage drums – Tape 808 and 909
Don´t miss out on Goldbaby’s new free stuff. Their commercial products include Tape 808 and Tape 909 (Vintage drum machine into valve Ampex 1/2″ tape machine, into 24bit samples), a range of old Roland drum machines sampled onto a MPC60, then re-sampled) and Vintage Home Keyboard Breaks which is classic breakbeats replayed on old casio keyboards. In the exceptionally fine Free Stuff section, you’ll find a 606 which has been through the Ampex treatment, an 808 recorded on cassette and various impulse responses (including an MPC60)…
Also check out some other free stuff >>
Electronic download pack for a nice price (4.99€)
Glitch Gumbo Vol 1 is a new download pack featuring electronic breaks and percussion loops. It is aimed at adventurous producers of breaks, IDM, techno and other electronic music styles. Glitch Gumbo Vol 1 is available in PC and Mac loop formats at the introductory price of 4.99 EUR.
The emphasis of this download pack is on experimental breaks and beats, while retaining a good dose of funk and groove. The loops build on ideas from IDM, techno and hip-hop to create an original collection of warped percussive sounds. The consistent use of timestretching, granular synthesis and programmed beat deconstruction techniques makes for a futuristic sounding download pack.
The loops are ideal for layering on top of other beats and textures. For the more experimental producers, they also lend themselves nicely to beat slicing, pitch shifting and other DSP trickery. Lastly, the beats can be used for spicing up hip-hop rhythms with a touch of glitch. All loops contain a convenient BPM tempo indication in the track title.
The Atypical Audio website provides previews of the loops as well as a Glitch Gumbo free download pack. This pack contains similar sounding loops made during the production of Glitch Gumbo Vol 1. Separate sounds are also made available for free in the form of two kits for Native Instruments’ Battery. All files can be downloaded from the Atypical Audio website.
– Glitch Gumbo Vol 1
– Electronic breaks and percussion loops
– Instant Download Pack of 66 loops
– Acid Loops & Apple Loops formats
– 16 bit / 44.1 kHz
– Royalty free
– Available from January 2008 on the Atypical Audio website
– Introductory price of 4.99 EUR until April 2008
– Website: www.atypicalaudio.com
Atypical Audio
www.atypicalaudio.com
New single with Welle:Erdball due in February
Rumors has it that it will be released on Feb 23rd and it is called “Ich bin aus Plastik”. You can see the cover of the upcoming single here and if you are strong in german, feel free to follow the text and links below
Zwar gibt es leider noch kein offizielles Releasedatum für die neue Welle: Erdball – Single “Ich bin aus Plastik” (ausser das es irgendwann im Februar diesen Jahres sein wird), dafür aber schon folgende Infos über die enthaltenen Gimmicks: Eine Spühschablone, eine Autogrammkarte und ein 3D-Wackelbild. Die limitierte Vinylversion wird zudem in rosa Farbe(!) erscheinen.
Erste Eindrücke des fertigen Coverartworks könnt Ihr hier bewundern: http://www.welle-erdball.de/plastik/
Jean Michel Jarre on tour in Scandinavia…
…and best of all, he will not go with his more recent ambient electro stuff, but rather make a show covering the gross part of the Oxygene album :-). Which in my mind is one of his best, after Zoolook I stopped purchasing his later stuff, which I believe was noteven close to his previous work.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYQiJJ3mJ8k]
The tour dates (in swedish, sorry):
Tillsammans med tre musiker och femtio synthesizers kommer franske Jean Michel Jarre till Sverige för en konsert. Den legendariske pionjären inom den elektroniska musiken ska framföra hela repertoaren från albumet “Oxygene” på Cirkus i Stockholm den 4 april.
Jean Michel Jarre är just nu aktuell med en nyinspelning av albumet som har 30 år på nacken och sålt i drygt 12 miljoner exemplar sedan det kom ut 1977. Fransmannen började sin musikkarriär på 1970-talet och hans första fullängsalbum “Deserted Palace” kom ut 1972.
Han är känd för sina stora utomhuskonserter och hans senaste spelningar i Sverige hölls 1997.
Den 4 februari släpps biljetterna till Cirkuskonserten.
Novation Nocturn
Novation unveils a new USB controller called Nocturn. Featuring the latest Automap Universal 2.0 software, exclusive to Novation controllers, Nocturn provides automatic, instant and intelligent control of all automatable plug-ins within every major sequencer, including Pro Tools.
Features :
– 8 touch-sensitive rotary encoders, each equipped with a bright eleven-LED ring
– 8 user-assignable illuminated buttons
– smooth, professional 45mm cross-fader
– Novation’s unique ‘speed dial’; a touch-sensitive rotary encoder that instantly takes control of whatever your mouse is focused on!
Probably the most interesting aspect of this controller is bundled software that features a “heads-up transparent control GUI” that places a “transparent control map across your computer screen, to be recalled or hidden at will.” Simply boot up the plug-in, and you’ll see at a glance how the parameters are automatically assigned to each of Nocturn’s controls. An instant click and control ‘learn’ function is also available for quick re-assigning of controls, or for creating your own controller map in seconds. Multiple page options mean that you can assign a potentially infinite number of parameters for each plug-in.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9B7oPhy20w]
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